Podcast | A brush with… Matthew Krishanu

Within the first episode of this new sequence of A brush with… Ben Luke talks to Matthew Krishanu about his influences—together with writers, composers, film-makers and, in fact, different artists—and the cultural experiences which have formed his life and work.

Krishanu, who was born in 1980 in Bradford, UK, is one among Britain’s most distinctive painters. He attracts on particular photographic photographs, together with these of his household and his childhood in Bangladesh, but his work are richly ambiguous, as he complicates his supply materials by emotion, reminiscence, geopolitics, references to artwork historical past and literature, and the poetics of paint itself.

He discusses the transformative expertise of seeing Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work, the continuing affect of El Greco, his response to the work of Gwen John and the artwork within the caves of Ajanta in India, and his oeuvre’s intimate reference to literature, movie and music. Plus, he offers perception into his studio life and solutions our common questions, together with the last word: what’s artwork for?

• Matthew Krishanu, Anomie Publishing, 196pp, £30/€35/$40 (hb). Out now within the UK and Europe, printed 20 April within the US.

• Matthew Krishanu, Jhaveri Up to date, Mumbai, 13 July-19 August; Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles, 11 November-11 December (tbc).

Sequence 15 of A brush with… runs from 29 March-19 April, with episodes launched on Wednesdays. You’ll be able to obtain and subscribe to the podcast right here

This podcast is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the humanities and tradition app.

The free app provides entry to an enormous vary of worldwide cultural organisations by a single obtain, with new guides being added commonly. They embrace the UK galleries DCA in Dundee and Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich. They be a part of a bunch of different British public galleries and museums on Bloomberg Connects, together with the Hayward Gallery in London, the place Matthew Krishanu featured within the 2021 exhibition Mixing It Up, MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, and Fruitmarket in Edinburgh. For those who obtain the Fruitmarket information on Bloomberg Connects you’ll discover an in-depth characteristic on its newest present, Poor Issues, which has been curated by the artists Emma Hart and Dean Kenning, and focuses on discussions round class. A video offers a tour of the present and in audio interviews, artists within the exhibition focus on their work and its relation to the theme. Additionally on the information are spotlights on Fruitmarket’s radical historical past and its everlasting initiatives in Edinburgh.